A strategy for promoting an integrated approach to the management of coastal areas in England DEFRA, 6th January 2009
The above link will take you to what purports to be our Government’s view on how to implement Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in England.
This absolute debacle is not so much a strategy for ICZM, more an instruction manual on ‘how to over egg the pudding you’re not even making’!!
Surely we (the taxpayers) have a right to expect a constructive lead from our Government on issues as important to the well being of our island nation as coast management. What we are getting is a whole series of measures, plans, strategies and policies emanating from the centre which are unworkable, unacceptable and seem to increasingly prove how little comprehension exists within central Government and its Quangos of how the coast and it’s communities function, or what is needed to maintain their functionality through global warming, climate change and sea level rise.
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